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Good morning Bert. Would you open us up with a word of prayer?
I mean.
Daniel chapter 2 and I'm all I'm gonna read 19 through the end of the chapter because we already did the first part last week and because the chapter is so long I didn't.
Want to.
Spend any more time reading verses 1 through 18. So getting verse 19 then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in the night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven and Daniel said Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever for wisdom and power belong to him.
It is he who changes the times and the epics. It's he who removes Kings and establishes Kings. He gives wisdom to the wise men and knowledge to the men of understanding. It is he who reveals the profound hidden things.
It is He who knows what is in the darkness and the light dwells with him to you. Oh God my God of my father's I give thanks and praise for you have given me wisdom and power. Even now you have made known to me what we have requested of you for you have made known to us the Kings matter.
Therefore Daniel went in to Ariok and the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon and he went and he spoke to him as follows. Do not Destroy the wise men of Babylon take me into the king's presence and I will declare the interpretation to the king.
Then Ariok hurriedly brought Daniel into the king's presence and spoke to him as follows. He says I found a man among the exiles from Judah who could make the interpretation known to the king. The king said to Daniel whose name was Belteshazzar.
Are you able to make known to me? The dream which I have seen and its Interpretation. And Daniel answered before the king and said as for the mystery about which the king has inquired neither wise men Conjurers magicians nor diviners are able to declare it to the king.
However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar. What will take place in the latter days? This was your dream and the visions in your mind while in your bed as for you Oh King while you were in your bed your thoughts turned To what would take place in the future and he who reveals mysteries has made known to you What will take place?
But as for me this mystery was not Has not been revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than any of the other living men. But for the purpose of making the interpretation known to the king that you may understand the thoughts of your mind.
You Oh King were looking and behold. There was a single great statue that statue which was large and extraordinarily Splendor was standing in front of you and its appearance was awesome. The head of the statue was made of fine gold its breast and its arms of silver its belly and its thighs of bronze its legs of iron its feet partly of clay and Partly of iron you continue looking until the stone was cut without hands and it struck the statue Had its feet of iron and clay and crushed them.
The iron and the clay the bronze the silver the gold were crushed all at The same time and became like chaff from the summer threshing floor and the wind carried them away So that not a trace of them was found.
But the stone that struck the statue became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. This was the dream now. We will tell its interpretation to you Oh King. You Oh King are the king of kings to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom the power and the strength and the glory.
And Wherever the sons of men dwell or the beast of the field or the birds of the sky He has given them into your hand and has caused you to rule over them. You are the head of gold. But after you there will rise Another kingdom inferior to you then another third kingdom of bronze which will rule over all the earth.
And then there will be a fourth kingdom. As strong as iron in so much as iron crushes and shatters all things. So like iron that breaks in pieces it will crush and break all these into pieces. And that you saw the feet and toes partly of potter's clay and partly of iron it will be a divided kingdom but it will have in it the toughness of iron in so much as you saw the iron mixed with common clay as The toes and the feet were partly of iron and partly of pottery.
So some of the kingdom will be strong and partly of it will be brittle and in that you saw the iron mixed with clay. They will combine with one another in the seat of men but they will not adhere to one another even as iron does not combine and bind it to pottery.
And the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and that kingdom will not be Left for another people and it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms but it But it will itself endure forever in so much as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without Hands and that it crushed the iron and the bronze and the clay and the silver and the gold.
The great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future so the dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell on his face and did homage to Daniel and Gave orders to present him with offerings and fragrance and incense and the king answered Daniel and he said surely your God is the God of gods and a lord of Kings and the revealer of mysteries since you have been able to reveal this mystery.
Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many gifts and he made him ruler over all the whole providence of Babylon. And chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon. Then Daniel made a request to the king and he that he would appoint Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Over the administration of the province of Babylon while Daniel was at the king's court.
Okay last week we we went over what a dream how often they were Happened in Scripture. It was not much. There's only 15 in the Old Testament and someone asked me. Well, how many were in the New Testament?
There's five five of them were concerning revolving around Jesus's birth and him coming going to Egypt coming back the warning of the The Magi there was five there and then one went to Pilate's wife. Warning her husband don't mess with Jesus.
That was it. So there's only 21 total and all of us in all of Scripture now. Visions were much more common and we're going to see as we get into verse 19 that God answers the dream of Nebuchadnezzar to Daniel with a vision so Last week Ariadne was sent out to do what?
What was he sent out to do and remember he was sent out with that. He was go out to kill all the wise men the conjurers anybody that was part of that guild. Conjurers soothsayers anybody that every one of them they were to be wiped out.
It's interesting that when we think about someone as despotic and tyrannical as Nebuchadnezzar. That if you can't do what he wants you to do it wasn't getting fired. It was getting killed. I mean we can't we don't do our job correctly.
Our employers can fire us not with Nebuchadnezzar. He chops you in pieces and makes your houses dung heaps is what he says. So in this case, nobody could do what he had what he wanted. He sent out Ariadne to find him he He comes to Daniel's door and he says to Daniel.
Hey, buddy I got a warrant for your execution and I want you to understand that Daniel did not do. The Chris Farley response. Okay, he did not do that. He said hold on a second. Why is this so urgent?
What's going on? It's interesting that Daniel had no idea. What had happened all these other men had been asked to do this and they had already said there's only a guy. Only the gods can be able to give a man this and they said there's nobody that dwells with God.
So when he gets to Daniel he says what's the urgent what's the problem he goes in makes a request he says Tell Ariadne I'll do it. And then what does he do? Everybody remember he prays. He actually he's goes he goes to his three friends and he says we have a dilemma.
We're gonna need to pray and you need to pray specifically for what anybody remember. It was a passage that I quoted from Isaiah. It was they were to pray for what? Mercy compassion. Yeah, did your King James say mercy?
Yeah, it is to pray for compassion. And if we understand what Isaiah's prophecy was, I mean, I'm sorry what Solomon's prophecy was is when you go into another land when you're being hauled off into captivity and you're Before your captors pray for compassion and we know that Daniel was a man of God.
Even as an 18 year old young man. And he had the scripture embedded within him because he would even be reading the scriptures of Jeremiah later on. What did he do? He did what Solomon told him to do in the book of Kings and it was pray for compassion.
And that's what they did. He had offered up God's services for the for the food to make him fatter when he would eat veggies. He offered up God's services in this case. He's not offering up God's services.
He's pleading with God. There's no other way. We're gonna die and I can't help but think in the mind of Daniel is. Okay, Lord, you got us here. You brought us here for a purpose you've excelled us more than anybody else in all of the land and the conjurers and the soothsayers and You saved us through just eating.
What eating through? Vegetables and water and now this God. What are you fixing to do now? And what did they do? They prayed and it's interesting when we get to between 18 and 19. We don't know what the prayer is.
We don't know what they did that night. All we know is we have the the response of Daniel after God answered his prayer. Says verse 19 then the mystery was revealed to Daniel in the night vision. This wasn't a dream.
God answered him in a vision. He said day then Daniel blessed the God of heaven and here it is. Daniel said let the name of God be blessed forever and ever for wisdom and power. Belonged to him had it not already been said of Daniel that he was a man of wisdom.
He was a man of Understanding he was a man of discernment. Well, he is saying here it belongs to God. So the wisdom and the power and the things that Daniel was having was from God he says in verse 21 it is God who changes the times and the epics and removes Kings and establishes Kings.
Who what's Daniel saying here? He's saying that God's the sovereign God over all things and he's saying it's God that's put us here it's God that's putting in Nebuchadnezzar in the place that he's in now and it's God that's going to raise him up and He remember he's already knows the dream and it's God that's going to debase him at some point.
And it's God that changes the times in the epics. What's the times in the epics, man? This time is a time of them being hauled off into captivity. Was that under God's decree or this by happenstance? This was by God's decree it says he he then gives wisdom to wise men.
Okay was Daniel a wise man. Yeah, who gave him the wisdom. He says right here that God did and in knowledge to men of understanding it is he who reveals profound hidden things. If he knows what's in the darkness and the light dwells with him.
It's interesting that it says that the light dwells with God. Not that God dwells in the light. No, no. No God is light and in him is no darkness when God comes into the when God comes on the scene per se a Darkness is gone.
You go into a room that's dark with just a little tiny pin light. You then that little light you can see in the darkness. Well, God is light and in him is no darkness in verse 23. You owe God of my father's.
I give thanks to you. Once again, he's hearkening back to the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the God of David. Actually, he was a descendant of David. So therefore he's going look you you are the you are the God of my father's and I bow and worship You for you here it is.
You've given me wisdom and power. It's you Lord that have given me the ability to discern these things. He's not put anything of his own volition. This is nothing in Daniel that could have done this and it's Daniel knows this.
Even now you have made known to me. Look what he says what you have made known to me what we requested. They read him and his four. Our three friends had a prayer meeting. God could event give it to any one of them.
But Daniel is the one that's been given the answer and he doesn't say hey. You've given it to me based on my request. He goes back. Look it was the faithful prayers of my Brethren, he says for you have made known to us the Kings matter.
Well, what was the Kings matter? What was the Kings matter? He he wanted to know not only the dream. He wanted to know its interpretation. Like I said, I don't hold the position. There are some that hold the position.
I think even John Calvin holds a position that he forgot the dream. I don't believe that for one second based on what he says. He wants to make sure that none of them are hucksters. So he says I want you to tell me what the dream is and its interpretation because he knows how it works.
What is it you take you tell me what the dream is and I'll make something up. I mean that's pretty much what they did. So verse 24 says therefore Daniel went to Arioch whom the king had appointed to destroy the wise men of Babylon.
Arioch was basically the head of the Secret Service. He was his bodyguard. He said he went and he spoke to him as follows. Daniel told him he said don't destroy the wise men of Babylon. Take me into the king's presence and I will declare the interpretation to the king.
Daniel has gotten what was requested of by him and his his brethren now He's going to go before the king and he's going to proclaim the truth of God once again. Psalm 119 stanza 2. I will Give me the words when I stand before the kings of the earth to proclaim your truth once again.
That's why I believe Daniel was the writer of Psalm 119. He says take me into the king's presence and I will interpret it to the king. Check out what Arioch does that. Then Arioch hurriedly brought Daniel into the king's presence and spoke to him as follows.
What does he say?
Yeah.
Hold on a second you were going to drag this dude off to have him drawn and quartered in his house turned into a pile of dung and. Now you're saying hold on. Look what I've done. Nebuchadnezzar. Well in in my travels to go out.
I found someone. No, no, no, no, no, he didn't find someone. Daniel told him Don't let this be so urgent. I will give you the answer. So Arioch going the way of Carnality and the way of the world says hmm.
This might be an opportunity for me to get another another advancement in Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom. And he says I found someone among the exiles of Judah who can make the interpretation known to the king.
The king said to Daniel whose name was Belteshazzar Are you able to make known the dream which I have seen and its interpretation and. Notice what Daniel's response was. Daniel's response wasn't yeah, I can do it.
That's not what Daniel's response was and I I have no doubt that he is standing boldly before Nebuchadnezzar. But he's speaking with humility. Remember there's a difference between.
Arrogance and.
Boldness. He is standing there knowing that he has the very Dream and its interpretation, but he doesn't say yeah, I've got the answer. He says this. Daniel answered the king and he said as for the mystery about which the king has requested.
He hearkens back to exactly what the conjurers the soothsayers the diviners. He basically says those guys were right. He says as for the mystery about which you required of King no wise man nor conjurer Nor magician nor diviner are able to declare it to the king.
However, there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries. Yeah, and Daniel knows that guy. Did those other people know them? No, they're pagans and he says. However, there's a God in heaven who reveals mysteries and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar.
What will take place in the latter days? What does it mean by latter days?
In.
Days to come yeah, this is the last year seven years of human history. This is what's going to take place after now. This was your dream and the visions in your mind while you were in your bed. And he now we know remember how we were talking last week.
How sometimes we eat something or we have something that goes along during the day and then our dreams in our mind Are usually spurned by something that happened. I told you I was reading Louis L 'amour books.
I was reading through Exodus. Next thing, you know, I'm having a dream about Moses riding across the land on a horse with a shotgun. Okay. All right. That's not the type of dream that he just had.
Huh?
Because I was in Exodus. He says as for you King you're on your bed your thoughts turned to what would take place in the future. So here it is Nebuchadnezzar and all of his glory laying in his room on his bed that night.
Wondering what's gonna be of all this? What's going to happen? I can't. I can't imagine. Being a person in the power that he had or any other king in world history and at some point going. Will this eventually come to an end?
You know the splendor of all of it. Obviously Nebuchadnezzar. He didn't start the Neo Babylonian Empire. It was his father that actually began to take them. But it was Nebuchadnezzar as a general that began to make the conquest.
But he is now being the conquesting general is now the the the king of Babylon and its empire. And in his mind what's going to happen from here and he who reveals those mysteries has made known to you.
What will take place what you what you were thinking about Nebuchadnezzar? God has revealed it to you. I want you understand. Indirectly dealing with Daniel and his friends through the diet. That they ate God indirectly dealt with Nebuchadnezzar right there.
Indirectly now Daniel speaking with Nebuchadnezzar this time. He's fixing to get strike one. God's dealing directly with this pagan king strike one he says God has made known to you what will take place in verse 30.
But as for me this mystery it was not revealed to me for any wisdom residing in me more than any other living man. Once again, look at the humility of Daniel. Daniel saying look there's nothing in me that can muster any of this up.
I know there is in the Babylonian conjures Constitution and handbook that you tell us and we make stuff up, but this ain't gonna be made up. This is something that God has revealed and you revealed it to me not because there's something in me.
But because the God of heaven has chosen to do so once again. Sovereign grace and election for God to do this. God did not have to do this. But God chose to do this through his servant Daniel he says.
But for the purpose of making this interpretation known To the king and that you may understand the thoughts of your mind. Hey, why did God? Not just give this dream or this vision to Daniel. Has that ever crossed y 'all's mind?
Anybody or no?
Why didn't God just give it to Daniel let Daniel come in and proclaim like Isaiah or one of those other court? Prophets come in and just proclaim. Hey, here it is.
I think it's directly. Obviously, yeah, and I believe.
Based on. The text is this sets up Daniel for the next 64 plus years. I.
Believe no doubt. What's that? Oh, yeah strike one.
This is it and he and if we get to that, we probably won't get to the whole interpretation of the dream. But this is strike one for him. This is it. God's gonna deal through this book. He will deal three times directly with Nebuchadnezzar and he's a prideful arrogant, man Unwilling to turn course.
So he gives day gives Nebuchadnezzar this dream. He uses Daniel his servant to deal directly with it and it sets the stage for Daniel to come on to the scene to one to be in the king's court and to come alongside and to be a ear to the king of God's sovereign control over absolutely all things.
Remember after this Daniel ends up in next to the king and I do believe it's going to be because of this very Conversation that puts him in that place that he begins to have a love for his captor but we see when we get to Chapter four when he has the what the the the dream of the tree and then he's walking on top of his palace and he Basically says look what all that I've built.
Okay. That whole thing when Daniel then interprets that dream to him. He says a very striking thing. Oh king. I Wished this would have been about your enemies. I Wish it there's do you see the care? I wish this is about somebody else and not you look if he didn't care about Nebuchadnezzar he just said I.
You know who cares? And then that sets Daniel to be the one to most likely have taken the reign to the kingdom for that Seven times and however you want to do that. So he it's to set the stage for Daniel to be a man to speak to the to the Nebuchadnezzar to be in his court and to be that ear that I even believe.
When they're in.
597 Hall's Jehoiachin a Jehoiachin off into captivity. Who do you think was in his ear? Please be kind to him. Don't execute him. Don't execute him. Don't execute him. Who do you think was in his ear to be kind and benevolent to Jeremiah?
You understand that Nebuchadnezzar protected Jeremiah, you know that Nebuchadnezzar protected him. He kept Jeremiah from being Be starved to death being executed and when he went in and he.
Overrun.
Jerusalem he had him safe passage out. Why. Because He I believe because Daniel was in his ear. This is a faithful man of God. He is telling them to submit to you. I don't know if you ever read that. And Jeremiah.
Jeremiah says if you put your Neck under the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar Zedekiah, it'll be good for you. It will be good for you. Submit. Do what you're supposed to do and you will live. Where do you think that was coming from?
So.
He says and this is what was in your mind. Oh King verse 31. You were looking and behold. There was a single great statue that statue which was large of Extraordinary splendor it was standing in front of you and its appearance was awesome.
The head of the statue was made of fine gold. Its breast and its arms of silver its belly and its thighs of bronze. Its legs of iron and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. And as you continued looking until a stone cut without hands Struck the statue and its feet of iron and clay crushed them in the iron and the clay.
The bronze and the silver the gold were crushed all at the same time and became like chaff from the more Summer threshing floor and the wind carried them away So that there was no trace of them can be found and that the stone struck the statue became a great Mountain and filled the whole earth.
So here it is. He told him the dream as Daniels told him. Hey, this was your dream. I could imagine I mean looks like you have to read this existentially you have to get into the text. Here it is the most powerful man and on the face of the earth at this time this exiled Young man Exiled from Judah is now standing before all and he says this was your dream and I can imagine Nebuchadnezzar looking over at Ariok going.
He said it Ariok I thought you were gonna have to whack this guy.
And he's like.
Ariok, can you believe that that was my dream? So now Daniel tells him the dream. What does that do for Daniels credibility now? Oh Wow, he knew it so he has to know its interpretation. It sets up. He sees a statue.
What is it?
Y 'all tell me what they are. Some of y 'all are getting sleepy. Just yeah, but this is going to be the same. That sets up four kingdoms right here and obviously. The last is a stone the builders rejected, but I don't know if we'll get that far.
So here it is. He said you saw a statue and its head was the top of it was gold. Silver bronze. And how many of your Bibles already have a heading in each one of these anybody?
No.
Yes, anybody a New American Standard 1995 edition Tries to help you interpret what's going on here just to let you know. It tries to tell you or it does tell you with some accuracy of which kingdoms. These were long before you get to okay.
So it's as the the headings are it's trying to interpret it for you. So give you an understanding of what's going on. But what we do know is when you get to chapter 7 It's actually an exposition of what these are.
There is a parallel passage to chapter 2 and it is chapter 7 now somebody sent me a Message not as in text message, but a sermon from a well-known preacher. And he said that we should not use Chapter 7 to interpret this and I say he's wrong.
Because we don't have just chapter 2 we have all of Daniel to help us understand exegetic. Exegetically with through the analogous of Scripture mean letting Scripture interpret Scripture that we know what these kingdoms are.
So When we get to verse 36 Here it is he says in that section we just read the dream he's like look here's this this huge statue Colossus giant he says and it's made of these types of Materials and I want you understand these materials very expensive.
But as we go down these become less valuable. But they become harder. Harder and these aren't. I think I said this in the Introduction don't see this as for Statues don't look at it that way. It's a one system and it's the world system.
That has raised its hand up against the kingdom of God. Okay. So we get to verse 36. It says now this was the dream.
Now.
We will tell its interpretation. Understand we. We will tell its interpretation. Before the king he says verse 37 you Oh King are the king of kings. To whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom the power and the strength and the glory.
Was that true? Of course it was because he's speaking as a representative of God. He says Nebuchadnezzar you're the head you are top dog. What made Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom?
Splendor it's from a from a dictatorship. Nobody put a check and balance on Nebuchadnezzar. He spoke and it happened. You're gonna see when we get into Daniel chapter six. That when you get to this kingdom, which will be the Medo-Persians the king could give a decree but he couldn't go back.
Why could he not go back? Because of the law of the Medes and Persians. So even that this king and the Medo-Persians was was bound to. I'm just going to use it Just for simplistic terms to a constitution type.
Okay, and he not with Nebuchadnezzar what he said. It was it was sent out and there was nobody that could buck on it. He says and you have been given the power and the strength and the glory and hey, he had unchecked power unchecked strength and his glory was Absolutely magnificent.
Hey, there was things about Nebuchadnezzar's kingdom the hanging gardens the walls all that stuff. Hey, it was said that the walls around Babylon you could run for chariots wide. Run straight down do a u-turn and come back.
He had built a a bridge over the Euphrates. I mean he was an architectural genius not only was a military but an architectural genius and He he had his glory was like none other other it says here in verse 38.
And whatever the sons that when wherever the sons of men dwell or the beast of the field or the birds of the sky. He has given them into your hand and called you to rule over them all you are The head of God when you get to chapter 4 that's going to be said about him again.
He says you are the head of gold matter. Here is Nebuchadnezzar. Here it is. I'm ruling over all of these but he's not ruling over all these. Because there's gonna be somebody that's gonna come up and it's gonna whack him.
But he says look I am the gold look at me. Such a he doesn't even read he doesn't even Remember the fact that God is the one that put him in this place. I do believe already at this point based on Jeremiah and what Jeremiah had already said that Nebuchadnezzar knew that he was a Vessel used by God chapter 27 go read it 25 and 27 of Jeremiah.
He says that you are the servant of God. Nebuchadnezzar to be a basically a scourge against my people he was to be used by God and here it is. No, no, no. No, I'm the head. And this will play very Key when we get to the next chapter of gold and an image.
And he says in verse 39. He says but after you will arise another kingdom and what does it say about that kingdom? Inferior. Inferior and what we do know about history is.
The Babylonians Came along about 626.
Okay.
This would have been the fall The Assyrian Empire fell Finally in Nineveh around 612 the fall of Nineveh, but Asher bonnie Paul, which was there basically the most ruthless and Biggest proponent for Conquest he died in 626.
Then that's when nabba palazzo, which would have been the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar father His Empire began to make its run across Mesopotamia and and start taking over the area. It wouldn't be though until.
612.
That it that.
Nineveh would fall.
609 is when.
They became a superpower meaning that was nobody checking them at that point. Okay. Well, this would go from I'm just going to use this. Then this one's gonna come along and it's inferior to him. That's the Medo-Persians and they're going to take over Babylon really with little to no bloodshed.
I don't know if anybody knows what happens with Belshazzar's feast. They come in remember the handwriting on the wall and all of that. They come in and little to no bloodshed they come in take over Cyrus the Great Darius to meet whom I believe the same person takes over and It is at this point That the Medo-Persians start and they will run for probably.
About.
220 219 years. Depending on how you see it. And then this will be the Greeks. They will come along and they will be. Who? Medo-Persians. Now they this happens when The Medes and the Persians are going to try to take and I'm running out of time the Medo-Persians are trying to take over Greece.
Everybody's heard the Battle of Thermopylae. Anybody ever heard of that. Anybody no nobody heard of it. They made a movie about it the 300 battle of Thermopylae. So in 480 they were going to make their conquest to take over Greece.
The Spartans stood 300 they slayed a bunch of them. They ultimately they actually lost. Which then. And that would have been in 480 and it would be at that point that the the hatred and Anger and revenge would begin to go towards from this group from this Rising Empire against the Medes and the Persians.
And it is believed in 480 that it was the party of Xerxes. Correct me if I'm wrong because you probably you teach history. It is believed by many historians that in the book of Esther the party that they were having with Xerxes was a party.
That happened right before they were going to Invade Greece. Okay. That's what many his scholars believe. Okay, it fits the narrative. I don't know for sure, but it fits the narrative. Well, it would be as this was rising in the around 340 through the Philip of Macedon really making him.
Philip of Macedon was Alexander the Great's daddy. It would be at this time that in 336 the Persians Whacked Philip Macedon. Oh. They whacked Philip of Macedon. That sets up. Who? Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great. And 336 ascends to the throne. Very very upset and there was people and I'll let me let me finish right here and then we'll pray and we'll go. And y 'all can hear Keith talk. He is absolutely.
Infuriated and.
There are people in Thebes that does not want him to be king. They want someone else. There's an uprising at this time. He goes back and old man. He kills 6 ,000 people in the city of Thebes. He saves one house and it was his famous.
His famous poet saves it keeps it. He finishes this in 336 to 334. Finney gets that done and then he starts making his way towards the Persians and. In 12 years, we'll pick up here next week in 12 short years.
Alexander the Great.
Ruled.
Each one of these has its role in redemptive history and we'll go over that next week. We'll pick up with Alexander the Great next week and See how far we get. This is a long chapter. So I'll try to finish it next week.
I should be able to 25 seconds for questions comments outburst of anger. Clarifications. Riots or demonstrations. Keith you'll pray for us.
Christ equipping each one of us for the work of ministry. I pray now that as this class ends and we move into worship Lord that we would have spirit of worship that desires to worship you in spirit and.
Amen.